Assuming john is required, and myers is required, the following 15 results were found.
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The Ethnomusicology of Music Learning and Teaching
Ethnomusicology, for at least the last forty years, has been primarily an idiographic discipline. That is, ethnomusicologists' research has focused on the description of particular music systems and music cultures at the expense of either nomothetic...
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Abstract In the field of ethnomusicology, the study of children’s music has long been overlooked which leads to a lack of understanding of the complex contexts of children’s musical worlds. Therefore it is imperative that we explore the historical and...
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Continuing the Dialogue -- A Concerned Educator Deconstructs
"Foreword" to Mantle Hood The Ethnomusicologist, (New York, 1971), vii. (3) Mantle Hood The Ethnomusicologist, 3-4. (4) John Myers Way of the Pipa, (Kent, Ohio, 1990), 135. (5) This was the topic for a session led by Anne Dhu McLucas during the 1992...
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From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, American higher education has had a somewhat uneasy and self-conscious relationship with the world beyond the academy. Through the years, critics have sometimes invoked terms such as "real world" and...
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Poking the Pillars: A Preliminary Evaluation of Integration, Diversity, and Creativity
An earlier version of this article was presented as part of the special session, "Integration, Diversity, and Creativity: Reflections on the 'Manifesto' from The College Music Society," at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting, St. Louis, October...
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Reconciling Values and Dollars in an Age of Declining Resources
Now emerging from the 2008-2009 economic free-fall, academe faces a new reality, one that likely will define our fiscal landscape for some time to come. The question becomes, how will we guide ourselves in this time of limited-and limiting-resources,...
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A Survey of Recent Publications Relating to Nineteenth-Century Music and Musicians
Anyone who has taught a course on romantic music deplores the scarcity of suitable texts. Not only is there no outstanding survey of the period, but with few exceptions we cannot even resort to completely reliable studies of particular genres or...
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Reclaiming the Liberal Arts in a Disrupted World Order: A Case for the B.A. in Music
“Achievement comes to denote the sort of thing that a well-planned machine can do better than a human being can, and the main effect of education, the achieving of a life of rich significance, drops by the wayside.” — John Dewey, Democracy and...
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Music in Higher Education: Evolution Now and Ahead of Us
It is through historically strong programs of music in higher education that many fine performers, composers, scholars, and teachers of music are educated and then “released” every year to the world. Our music majors (and music minors, and all sorts of...
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Preliminaries In the 1990s, college music is undergoing radical curriculum reform in response to various calls to diversify subject matter and repertoire. Traditional programs of study are being challenged, and classical canons of repertoire broken...
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Help Wanted? Exploring Altruism in a Music Conservatory through Positive Social Deviance
The purpose of this project was to explore student reactions to altruism in the affective context of a music conservatory. Through a series of scenarios designed to breach social norms, the author gauged conservatory students’ willingness to accept...
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The following article is based upon a speech that Dr. Buechner delivered before The Massachusetts Music Educators Association in Springfield on March 22, 1963. He has taken this opportunity to add a paragraph or two for the sake of clarity and has...
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Introduction Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music. Although women have been actively involved in performance, composition, teaching, and patronage from the history of the ancient Greeks...
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Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum
Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum1 Music theory has served as the foundation for undergraduate music curricula in the United States for much of the past century. Within many music departments, it has been used to introduce students...
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College-Community Partnerships: The Engaged Campus
The CMS Committee on Advocacy has led two significant initiatives for music advocacy on behalf of the College Music Society in recent months. Their purpose was to establish a firm and enduring presence for music in the dialogue of issues pertinent to...
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